Assume the course is flat and straight asphalt. Also assume you'd have access to whatever required nutrition you wanted. Also assume you get a 4-minute bathroom break every three hours.
Assume the course is flat and straight asphalt. Also assume you'd have access to whatever required nutrition you wanted. Also assume you get a 4-minute bathroom break every three hours.
probably, assuming you were fit and trained to do so
Yes. You're looking at ~420 miles. There have been accounts as recent as 150 years ago of Native Americans traveling 300 miles in about 72 hours (with sleep and no food) so, I think if you took someone like that who only has existed on fat for fuel their entire lives and give them necessary nutrition to use food for fuel on the trek then they could do it. Some kind of stimulant like caffeine might also be necessary.
The world's best for this event is about 13 minutes/mile. It might be physically possible to go 10 minutes/mile, but it's going to be damn hard.
So your question is NOT can you run 403.2 miles (5.6x72) in 72 hours. You have to maintain that exact (or very close) pace for 56 minute every hour , 72 hours in a row.
IActDumb wrote:
...There have been accounts as recent as 150 years ago of Native Americans traveling 300 miles in about 72 hours (with sleep and no food)...
Right, and I'm sure that both the distance and time were accurately measured.
These accounts confirmed measurements by Screaming Eagle, Walking Horse, and wise spirit of forefathers. There no reason to doubt validity.
werent they famale native americans that did this?
Paula could do it because she gets faster the fhe longer the distance.
NYC to Boston and back in three days.
Piece of cake!
Dane or Dean would be likely candidates to do it.
Dean Karnazes probably could do it.
NO, this is not possible.
genuine random a hole wrote:
So your question is NOT can you run 403.2 miles (5.6x72) in 72 hours. You have to maintain that exact (or very close) pace for 56 minute every hour , 72 hours in a row.
You cannot even read...
Non-stop 10-minute miles (I'm going to ignore the proposed 4-minute breaks) would give you 144 miles per day, or 432 miles in 72 hrs.
Yiannis Kouros did about 294 miles in 48 hrs on the track in his best 48-hr performance, so he would have needed to do another 138-mile day (i.e. almost maintain the same pace) on top of that.
His best for 6 days was about 640-some miles. His best for 24 hrs was about 188 miles. I think the 24hr record might be the strongest of all, although it's hard to say. Going off that, he would have needed to run about 244 miles in the next 48 hrs to average 10-minute miles for 72 hrs.
It looks like it probably can't be done. If Kouros couldn't do it, it's unlikely that anybody else can. Maybe if some super-elite marathoners were somehow enticed to take on the challenge, somebody might be able to do it. I doubt it, though. Plus, there would have to be pretty serious reward to get those guys interested in trying to run an obscure event like that.
One of the better runners once said running along on that 4 or 5 hour marathon with Lebow hurt more than running 2:xx.
running slow is hard for those who can run fast. For those who can run slow running slower is easier than running slow.
Hy Wazdare wrote:
running slow is hard for those who can run fast.
Geoffrey Mutai's training leading up to Boston included several days such as these:
Monday:
am: 2 hour easy (8-6:30 pace)
pm: 1 hour easy (8-6:30 pace)
Wednesday & Friday:
am: 1 hr 50 min easy run (8:00/mi)
pm: 2 hr easy run (8:00/mi)
Maybe you should check with him to see how hard it was for a 4:4x pace marathoner to train at 8:00 pace.
doubles are my friend wrote:
Geoffrey Mutai's training leading up to Boston included several days such as these:
Monday:
am: 2 hour easy (8-6:30 pace)
pm: 1 hour easy (8-6:30 pace)
Wednesday & Friday:
am: 1 hr 50 min easy run (8:00/mi)
pm: 2 hr easy run (8:00/mi)
Maybe you should check with him to see how hard it was for a 4:4x pace marathoner to train at 8:00 pace.
He lives in Kenya at 8000 feet elevation.
I do most of my mileage at 7:00 pace so yeah I'd say 10:00 pace would be easily doable for a week. Ultrarunning is a joke.
Hy Wazdare wrote:
running slow is hard for those who can run fast.
"Isaac Songok and Augustine Choge, for example, rarely break 8-minute pace on their easy runs."
"Five weeks prior to Osaka, she (Nderaba)ran 7:30 pace for 23 miles. Tegla Loroupe ran under a similar program."
Source: RT
http://www.runnersworld.com/elite-runners/inside-kenyan-training